Lawrence Huxley Building Design

Lawrence Huxley Building design will creat buildings with flair and creativity. As a builder I have worked closely with Laurie on numerous projects including renovations and complex new builds. I always found him to be extremely professional and easy to work alongside. Laurie’s detailed plans and specifications are exceptional and his communication with clients is excellent.

We engaged Lawrence Huxley in 2020 to design a refurbishment and extension to our 1970's 3 bedroom cottage in Bundanoon. We had a budget and a good idea of what we needed. Laurie met with us on numerous occasions listening carefully to our needs and came up with a design plan incorporating our ideas and his own suggestions which would ultimately form the detailed plan that we were very happy with. Laurie was mindful that the final design plan had to meet our stated budget requirements. Laurie ensured that our plan met with local council requirements and followed through with advice to the builders and relevant authorities as the renovations progressed. We now have a 4 bedroom, two bathroom home with lots of light and access and views to our garden from all our rooms. We are extremely happy with the extensive renovations to the original house and to the new extension which resulted in an extra main bedroom, walk-in wardrobe, ensuite and study. We couldn't be happier, thank you Laurie.

Lawrence (Lawrie) Huxley was the Building Designer for our property in Penrose, in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. The property is approximately 450 square metres and included a new area comprising 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a substantial open plan lounge/dining area and kitchen, a large deck with remote fly screens, and various storage areas. The property was also designed to adjoin an existing cottage in a French style and included some rebuild of the original cottage including a study. It was a complicated build with many angles and high ceilings. Lawrie did a superb job of delivering a plan that was robust enough for our builder to follow and sympathetic to the original cottage. Lawrie is clearly a very talented designer with great attention to detail and supplemented the plan with many hours of supervision of the entire building process.

Lawrie has done all the design work in both of our properties in Surry Hills, Sydney, and we have been delighted with the results. He designed two extensions for our Surry Hills terrace, a complete kitchen extension and rebuild, and also a loft studio conversion. He is also currently designing a larger scale development for us, in our other property. Lawrie is easy to work with, and is brilliant at interpreting our initial ideas and putting them into practice, and he has played a huge part in making the projects relatively stress free. He has been a great help with DAs, and his knowledge of real-word building has been a huge advantage in turning plans into reality. As an example, our long time builder took a long look over the kitchen extension plans and gruffly declared “this bloke knows what he’s doing!” I could not recommend him more highly.

I Ursula found Laurie to be very professional. He showed meticulous attention to detail and he was very easy to work with. As a result I am very pleased with the outcome of the extension to our home. I would not hesitate to recommend Laurie to design your dream home. Warm Regards Ursula

Testimonial – Lawrence Huxley Design. I have no hesitation in recommending the work of Lawrence Huxley. He has designed two family homes for me and my husband, and in all aspects of negotiation and supervision he has been ethical, easy to work with, always willing to discuss ideas and find solutions to make sure our homes were just what we wanted. The first two collaborations involved the design and build of new homes, from concept to completion. From the start I was impressed with the way Lawrence spent time discussing our family requirements and lifestyle, and studying the sites to make best use of the climatic aspect and views, while still giving us the functionality we desired. The homes were quite different and suited to their specific sites. The first was low, nestled in its site, in a windy seaside location. The second was on a steep bushy riverside location, with many levels taking great advantage of the interesting site and the expansive views. Our third collaboration was to plan extensions to an existing home to accommodate the installation of a lift. This required a great deal of negotiation between us as clients, Council, the builder and the lift company. This was handled harmoniously and productively by Lawrence. The final product was both functional and beautiful, adding greatly to our lifestyle and comfort, and the value of our home. Lawrence has great skill in design, as well as an ability to listen and interpret client needs. I have no hesitation in writing this testimonial to his work. Helen Pain

We engaged Lawrence Huxley Building Design as part of a major renovation of our house in 2015. This renovation involved turning a late 1970s brick veneer 3 bed, 1 bath house into a 5 bed, 3 bath 2 storey home for our growing family. Lawrie worked with us from start to finish of the project. He helped us to refine the design we were looking for, listened to our ideas, respected our vision and gave his expert advice where necessary. The final design that Lawrie created perfectly matched our vision. Not only did Lawrie complete the design and help us with submission to the local council, he also worked with us through the building process to ensure the design successfully came to life. Four years on, we are still living in the house and are ecstatic with what he helped to create. Lawrie is an approachable, knowledgeable and skilled designer who made the major project we undertook an absolute breeze. We can't recommend Lawrence Huxley Building Design highly enough.

Fantastic to work with. Understood what we were trying to achieve. Project managed the whole build and was there every day to check what the builders had done and guided them in a respectful way. Excellent ideas that worked very well. A pleasure to work with.